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25-520: M1900 may refer to: FN M1900 or Browning M1900, pistol Colt M1900 , pistol 76 mm gun M1900 Mannlicher M1900, a rifle, see Ferdinand Mannlicher M1900 variant of the Hotchkiss M1914 machine gun 5-inch gun M1900 , a US Army artillery piece 6-inch gun M1900 , a US Army artillery piece See also [ edit ] M0 (disambiguation) [REDACTED] Topics referred to by

50-664: A locked-breech and a blowback pistol to Hugo Borchardt to obtain approval from DWM. Berg presented a draft of the license agreement to the FN board in June 1897 and then traveled to Hartford to finalize it with John and Matt Brownings in July 1897. The agreement granted FN the rights to manufacture and sell what became the M1899 in France, Belgium, Germany, Austria-Hungary, and Spain. In 1898 Berg

75-668: A militant of the Peruvian left-wing APRA party, is also reported to have used an FN1900 to assassinate President Luis Miguel Sánchez Cerro in Lima , on April 30, 1933. The pistol was popular in China from its introduction through World War II and was often copied and used as the basis for other designs. State-run arsenals produced serialized production runs for warlord militias, and local craftsmen produced one-off handmade versions. The North Korean Type 64 pistol  [ ja ]

100-448: A more comfortable and secure hold for shooters with larger hands. In addition to these external changes, M1900 incorporated several internal improvements. The reinforced area of the frame above the trigger guard was enlarged and thickened, enhancing the pistol's durability (cf. the image comparison above). The diameter of the breech block screws was increased, further strengthening the action. A cocking indicator, visible as an extension of

125-712: A mother of pearl-gripped Modele 1899, which he regularly kept on his person and in his bedside drawer. It now resides in the NRA Firearms Museum. Eugen Schauman , a Finnish nationalist activist, assassinated the Governor-General Nikolay Bobrikov (the highest Russian authority in the Grand Duchy of Finland ) with a Browning pistol in Helsinki on June 16, 1904. The act was followed by spontaneous anti-Russian celebrations in

150-707: A munitions plant in Karlsruhe ( Baden ), formerly Deutsche Metallpatronenfabrik Lorenz, and the weapons plant in Berlin . Shares that Loewe had in other gun- and ammunition plants were transferred to DWM. This included Waffenfabrik Mauser , Fabrique Nationale d'Armes de Guerre (FN) in Belgium and Waffen- und Munitionsfabrik A.G. in Budapest. The DWM was orchestrated by Isidor Loewe  [ de ] (1848–1910), as his brother Ludwig had died in 1886. Karl Maybach (who

175-513: A patent in September 1895. Although this experimental pistol did not progress further, its general layout and fire control group design were reused in three other designs he developed in the following year. Patents for them were filed in October 1896, and two out of three later became Colt M1900 and FN M1900. All four prototypes were chambered in .38 caliber and are currently exhibited at

200-734: A smaller and somewhat secret scale) and the first name change was to BKIW (Berlin-Karlsruher Industriewerke or 'Berkawerke') in 1922. After the national-socialist takeover of power in Germany, the company added 'vormals Deutsche Waffen- und Munitionsfabriken' (former DWM) to the company name in 1933. In 1936 DWM reverted to its old name. From 1940 to 1945, the Quandt family factories – AFA and Deutsche Waffen- und Munitionsfabriken – were staffed with more than 50,000 forced civilian laborers, prisoners of war and concentration camp workers, according to Scholtyseck's 1,183-page study. A recent film, "The Silence of

225-643: Is a copy of the M1900. Specimens examined by western authorities were marked with the date of 1964. A silenced variant was produced that featured a shortened slide to allow the threaded barrel to protrude far enough to attach the silencer. The weapon is chambered for .32 ACP , also known as 7.65×17mm Browning SR ("SR" denotes semi-rimmed). Herero Wars Mexican Revolution Balkan Wars World War I Russian Civil War Finnish Civil War Warlord Era Constitutionalist Revolution Chaco War Chinese Civil War World War II This model

250-461: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages FN M1900 John Browning started his work on semi-automatic pistols in 1894, when he mostly finalized the M1895 Colt–Browning machine gun . He initially tried to use the same gas action with a swinging piston, with a prototype ready to be shown to Colt in July 1895, and applied for

275-528: Is known by several names, including: Deutsche Waffen- und Munitionsfabriken Deutsche Waffen- und Munitionsfabriken Aktiengesellschaft (German Weapons and Munitions public limited company), known as DWM , was an arms company in Imperial Germany created in 1896 when Ludwig Loewe & Company united its weapons and ammunition production facilities within one company. In 1896 Loewe founded Deutsche Waffen- und Munitionsfabriken with

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300-493: The Pope Manufacturing Company . There, he supposedly accidentally met John Browning and persuaded him to have his pistol manufactured at FN by telling him the story of a modern factory with nothing to produce. Despite state-of-the-art manufacturing capabilities, by the end of 1895 FN was in poor financial shape due to a lack of orders on their M1889 rifles and a lost legal battle with Mauser over

325-530: The Belgian military, FN introduced what was later called M1900, an improved design based on the M1899. These designations were applied retroactively after FN began manufacture of other Browning pistol designs; initially the M1900 was marketed as simply the " Pistolet Browning" (Browning Pistol). A shorter barrel reduced the overall length by less than a millimeter while maintaining the same caliber and magazine capacity. The grip plates were made 1 mm wider, offering

350-765: The Browning Firearms Museum in Ogden, Utah . Browning licensed the rights to produce and sell them to Colt within the US and Canada in July 1896, but it's believed at the time Colt was mainly protecting its revolver market. In 1896 or 1897 Browning also scaled the .38 blowback pistol down to .32 caliber to use as a pocket pistol . According to a widespread legend, in April 1897 FN sent their sales manager Hart O. Berg to Hartford , where he had previously worked, to investigate advances in bicycle design introduced by

375-626: The First World War, DWM proved to be an important part of the pre-war German economy. Many of their weapons were still used by German troops up through the Second World War . DWM had its own system of cartridge codes, and the "DWM" three digit-code still is important in differentiating vintage ammunitions. Furthermore, the DWM cases had no caliber names, so one did not get misleading caliber designations in reformed cartridges. DWM

400-532: The Quandts", took a critical look at their wartime activities. After denazification hearings in 1948, no repercussions followed. In the 1950s, following the war, the Berlin branch of the company switched to the renovation and building of railroad and public transport equipment. It started using the name Deutsche Waggon- und Maschinenfabriken GmbH , but still used the original DWM logo. It later became Waggon Union ,

425-473: The internal cocking lever, was added, providing a visual confirmation of the pistol's cocked status. Finally, M1900 introduced a slide lock, activated by turning the safety lever upward when the slide was retracted in order to facilitate easier cleaning and maintenance. Production ceased only 11 years later, with a total of about 725,000 units having been produced by FN only (excluding all the numerous copies). United States President Theodore Roosevelt owned

450-429: The rights to produce improved M1893s . In 1896, most of their primary shareholders left and a major competitor, DWM , took over a controlling stake, excluding the company from the export market for military firearms and forcing it to diversify into sporting firearms, their parts, and even bicycles. However, documents from Browning's later legal dispute with Georg Luger tell a different story. In 1896-1897 Berg, who

475-449: The same term This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the same title formed as a letter–number combination. If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=M1900&oldid=841706798 " Category : Letter–number combination disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description

500-583: The somewhat different, air cooled Parabellum MG 14/17 for aviation use. Along with being one of the main arms suppliers of Imperial Germany, the company was at the forefront of small arms technology. They also supplied the world (mostly Latin America and Spain ) with the Mauser rifle system, becoming one of the world's largest arms manufacturers. Because the Mauser rifle was one of Germany's main exports before

525-533: The streets of Helsinki and after the 1917 independence Schauman was considered to be a national hero of Finland. An Jung-geun , a Korean-independence activist, assassinated the 1st Prime Minister of Japan and Resident-General of Korea Itō Hirobumi with this type of gun on October 26, 1909 in Harbin railway station . Socialist revolutionary Fanny Kaplan also used a FN M1900 in her attempted assassination of Lenin on August 30, 1918. Abelardo Mendoza Leyva ,

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550-513: Was acquainted with Browning due to their joint work on the Colt machine gun in 1893-1894, persuaded him in correspondence to visit Liège with his pistol designs, which he did in April 1897. FN managers were impressed by the design's reliability and simplicity (it's unclear from secondary sources if it was already in .32 or still in .38) which were uncommon in those early days of semi-automatic guns. Afterward, Berg and Browning traveled to Berlin and showed

575-818: Was part of the Maybach company) was employed by the Loewe company in 1901. DWM introduced the Pistol Parabellum ('Luger Pistol') in the early 1900s. It was worked on by Georg Luger and Hugo Borchardt . DWM manufactured the Maschinengewehr 01 and Maschinengewehr 08 , licensed version/clone of the Maxim machine gun . The MG08 would be the main German machine gun of the First World War , alongside

600-489: Was taken over by the Quandt Group in 1929. At this point the involvement of the Loewe company came to an end. The original Ludwig Loewe & Company merged with the 'Gesellschaft für Elektrische Unternehmungen' in 1929. DWM underwent a number of name changes following World War I and the subsequent disarmament phase. DWM was no longer allowed to produce military equipment after World War I (although they continued on

625-550: Was unsuccessful in attempting to persuade Browning to supervise the pistol’s production in Belgium, but its manufacture by FN transformed the fortunes of that company and laid the foundation for its long-term relationship with Browning (who died on FN’s premises in 1924). Serial production started in January 1899, but the M1899 nomenclature postdates it. FN originally called M1899 “modele de présérie”, approximately 14,400 of them were made in total. In 1900, driven by feedback from

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